Sheila Dikshit ignores MCD, launches waste management campaign

A cash rich municipality and a set of dedicated officials have made Surat s waste management system a successful but expensive exercise

What the municipalities must learn about waste management from an NGO

deputy chairperson of the planning commission K C Pant inaugurated

The solution lies in making waste management a community exercise

Where the government has failed miserably in providing quality service to the people, some ngos have set an example on how urban waste can be managed. Vatavaran in Delhi and Exnora in Chennai are two organisations, which have set at rest doubts on the dif

Several non gonernmental organisations are showing the way to handle this problem

The Punjab environment protection department in Pakistan has directed six city hospitals to manage their waste properly to help check the incidents of hospital-acquired diseases among the general

india has called for a strong protocol on liability and compensation to encourage countries to be more vigilant in the trans-boundary movement of hazardous wastes. Speaking on the Control of

Our Ecological Footprint: think of your city as an ecosystem - a book that aims to bring an environmental focus to mainstream education to make it more relevant. It helps teachers to: relook at the relationship between subjects in the curriculum and environment education; adopt methods of knitting its concepts into the regular curriculum; and equip them to conduct their own Ecological Footprint Project.

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